Maf Lead Immunology

Johnson & Johnson Janssen is recruiting for a Medical Lead in Immunology to be located in KSA, Riyadh.

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Key Responsibilities:

- Medical Affairs Lead is a strategic role, responsible for therapy area of Immunology in KSA
- Will lead a team of Medical Advisors and Medical Scientific Liaisons.
- Responsible to ensure the right MAF strategy and tactical plans are set across different markets with proper resources allocation.
- Shall ensure delivering high performance with high integrity and compliance standards.
- Responsible development and performance management for the MAF team.
- MAF lead is expected to drive change with high ambition, adopt new technologies and has the

Lead in a Complex and Ambiguous Environment
- Crisis management skills and ability to course correct in rapid growth and volatile markets

Agility
- Act with a sense of urgency, seek information to validate emerging trends
- Able to manage the pace of change and drive towards ambitious targets
- Expected to drive change with high ambition, adopt new technologies and has the mindset of innovation.

Develop Local Talent
- Act proactively on capability building within the scope of the business unit to drive the current performance & in anticipation for the future outlook. This includes robust talent management & succession planning
- Motivate and retain local talent in markets where retention is challenging
- Build teams and proactively manage succession pipelines
- Provide autonomy and empower people to make decisions

Influence and Negotiation
- Demonstrate confidence and conviction when expressing views to influence decisions both laterally and vertically across the organization
- Negotiate with global brand teams for local innovation and leverage shared resources effectively

Enable Internal Collaboration
- Role is crucial for cross-functional teamwork, alignment and collaboration with different functions that requires business acumen and strategic thinking.
- Thrive in a multi-cultural environment, seek opportunities to bring people together and foster collaboration

Build an External Network and Manage Stakeholders
- Actively build a strong network of external relationships at high levels

Visibility and Influence in a Matrix Environment:

- The ability to command support from resources outside their reporting line.
- The ability to foster a collaborative environment by creating and enabling networks at various levels of the organization.
- The ability to influence both laterally and vertically.

The Mindset for Doing Things Differently:

- The ability to analyze information in novel and strategic ways and constructively challenge conventional wisdom.
- The ability to take risks and make decisions in uncertain and ambiguous situations.

Deploying our MAF Strategy across TAs
- Developing medical strategy for therapy area based on BVP and BU plan in KSA.
- Support market access.
- Developing data dissemination plan based on TA strategy and medical unmet needs in KSA.
- Developing Medical education strategy and plan based on market educational needs and brand strategy and follow up on execution with the MSL team.
- Review of marketing and medical materials and approvals.
- Developing internal trainings plan for commercial organization in the TA and follow up on execution.
- Identify the training need of the MSLs and work with L&D to implement necessary trainings
- Managing the pipeline and Pre-launch planning: planning and implementing premarketing activities

external relationships
- Form effective relationships with customers
- Build strong network with key external stakeholders and KOLs.
- Keeping contact network with LS in KSA.

Influence across the matrix
- Establish strong, highly collaborative relationships with other Maintains collaborative working relationship between medical affairs and internal stakeholders to deliver timely and expert support to the therapy areas.
- Working closely with regional and global team for R&D clinical trials centers selections and liaising between regional team and local MAF.

UNIQUE TO EMERGING MARKETS
- Remain steady and positive in leading through VUCA (volat